I'm sorry, what exactly is the point of this nitpick? That there's some reason it's okay Amazon isn't getting shit to my house because a different person signs the driver's paycheck? Even if it was FedEx or UPS fucking it up (they find my place just fine....) I can't tell Amazon to use a different shipper, so I'd still drop Prime anyway.

And... yeah the branding does matter. Unlike Amazon I don't order shit from FedEx.

For clarification- These are Amazon-branded delivery vehicles and drivers.

Have you done that recently? One of the reasons I dropped Prime was over the course of a year it was progressively harder and harder and HARDER to get an actual human on the line. This was mainly over not getting packages TO MY HOUSE, their core business!!! My wife was recently complaining that Amazon was pushing her towards talking to their objectively-stupid chatbot to resolve issues.

Maybe our experiences are different, but Amazon's been on my "they don't give a shit about good customer service anymore" list for a couple of years now.

This is consistent with what I've seen on Facebook. For the uninitiated- Facebook long ago decided that seeing what our friends are up to wasn't good enough, so they cram sponsored slop into your feed. Picture the comments section here, it's all /. users posting, right? Well imagine if the powers that be added replies to comments, only they're sponsored. So we're talking about 'Right to Repair', or something like that, and somewhere in the middle there's a post about custom paint jobs for John Deere tractors complete with a link on how to get YOUR tractor custom painted! Obnoxious? Fuck yes. BUT... there is an interesting perk, here- That comment can still be moderated. Even better, anyone can reply to that paid-for thread to tell them to f-off! Never had that ability with banner-ads!!

That's basically what FB is doing. So in my case, for example, I'm still super pissed at T-Mobile for reasons I can share if anyone cares. And since I once searched for T-Mob's Customer Support Facebook's Algo thinks I'm a fan of theirs. Soon T-Mob's sponsored posts started appearing in my feed. Not only can I reply to those sponsored posts, I can click 'like' on them... or even better, click the 'Angry' icon! When one interacts with a sponsored post FB actually shows you MORE of them. And that's where I'm actually seeing people engage in 'revenge for customer service hassles'. When T-Mobile pops up in my feed there are already other people there who have clicked the frowny 'like' and posted about their horror stories with doing business with them. They're trying to alert others to the perils of doing business with them.

One hilarious side-effect of FB's approach to monetization is now T-Mobile is paying to show me specifically their sponsored posts because of my frowny-face engagement. Normally I want an ad-free experience but this one is funny because I've told them I'm never returning as a customer, they're wasting their money! Ha ha!

Not something I expect to last forever, but I am seeing people find creative ways to get back at these companies for screwing them.

Apple copied that feature long ago. Do you trust Google on that feature working exactly as you expect it to? Because I don't trust Apple's intentions or competence. Google wants your data and I have no doubt Apple would take a bribe from Meta.

Worried this could one day become a possibility I uninstalled the FB app. Now that I'm saying (typing) this out load I'm realizing Messenger and Instagram need to go, too.

Umm... don't Android users worry about this from Google? I'm legitimately asking.

What do you mean by roaming?

On that note, is everybody excited to put "I did that!" photos of Trump on gas pumps soon?

I'm on Facebook* because other people I care about are on Facebook. Sony PSN was the only other I service I've used where that was a critical factor. Not the same as Amazon or T-Mobile or anyone else abusing AI.

* I'm unaware of FB having a paid subscription, even if it exists nobody I know has mentioned it. If that was a reference to the blue check I only have one friend who has done that and it was for professional reasons.

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Then you'll be confident when you finally get to try.

Why is this flamebait? Fox is the biggest and they recently paid out close to a billion dollars because they were pushing a false story about voting machines.

That's Slashdode silliness ya doink.

Thanks to quotas, ICE agents are dying to find out how.

DOGE didn't find this.